International Community Presence on Post Conflict Urban Development

The International Community presence (the set up), aside from their mission and projects, is considered to play a very important role on the urban development of a post conflict city; the setting was never planned or considered in a holistic manner, therefore IC establishment was done ad hoc and it was guided by issues which did not help at its greatest to the urban development of the city and more over to the citizens who were most in need. The study is about the Urban Development, due to the fact that the biggest concentration of the International Community is likely to be in the urban centers, and the experienced changes are of a much considerable magnitude. The post conflict reconstruction phase is likely to be lasting at about 10 years and more, consequently the International Community for that time being tends to be recognized as temporary citizens of the city, and it is inevitably that they will be having an impact on the urban development of the city; in that basis it is considered to be significant that the International Community Establishment/Set Up be included into the International Organizations mission and assist in the overall mission of the reconstruction.

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Arta Jakupi is an architect and urban designer. She gained her PhD at the Bauhaus University-Germany, finished her postgraduate at Bauhaus-Dessau and her university studies at the University of Prishtina-Kosovo. She teaches at the University of Prishtina and University for Business and Technology; and she also runs an architectural studio.